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E V E N I N G EDITION

NORTH DAKOTA'S NEWSPAPER

E V E N I N G EDITION £1

VOL. 11, NO. 210. ^35 GRAND FORKS, N. IX, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1916. TWELVE PAGES—PRICE FIVE CENTS.

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GOVBRNKENI ACCEPTS All

THBR TERMS SHACTTTETON Director of German Propa­

ganda is Arrested and Imprisoned.

BITTER FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS

Hydro-aeroplane Raid Upon Constanza—Children

Are Injured.

London, Sept. 4.—The Greek gov­ernment at Athens accepted the de­mands made yesterday by the Entente powers in their entirety and an agent of the French and British gorem-ments today is taking over control of the postal and telegraphic communi­cations.

The British-French ministers ait Athens presented a note asking that these be taken over on the grounds that they are being used by the en­emies of the Entente. They also de­manded that agents of the Teutonic Allies etnployed in corruption and espionage must immediately leave Greece.

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Aeroplane Raid. Bucharest, Via London, Sept. 4.—A

raid by three hostile hydro-aeroplanes upon the City of Constansa, on the Rumanian coast of the Black sea, with the wounding of several civilians and children, is announced. > The statement says: >

"On our northern and northwestern fronts, after somewhat lively fighting we occupied the locality-of Borssek, and the heights west of town." "We captured- four officers, 160 men and

/entirely occupied the inhabited region of Sekeli In Haromstek." * "On the southern front, the enemy attacked along the whole Dobrudja frontier south of Basard jfk, bat wm repulsed. On the remainder of the front fighting continues. The enemy bombarded Islacz and Kalafat. Three hostile hydro-aeroplanes dropped bombs on Constanza. and several chil­dren and civilians were injured."

Detain Minister. Amsterdam. Sept. 4.—Via London—

The Bulgarian cabinet council decided to detain G. C. Derussi, the Rumanian minister at Sofia, with his staff until Radew, the Bulgarian minister at Bucharest, has returned, says a dis­patch from Budapest.

Attack Repulsed. Saloniki, Sept. 4.—Bulgarian troops

made another attack on the Mace­donian front west of Lake Ostrovo. It is announced by the French army headquarters today that the attack has been repulsed by the Serbians.

Borszek Occupied. Bucharest, Sept. 4.—Via London.—

The Rumanian war office announces that Rumanian troops occupied Bors-sek and Sekeli in the Transylvania, jectlves seem The Teutonic Bulgarian allies were repulsed at Basardjik in the frontier between Dobrudja and Bulgaria.

messages sent to New York and At­lanta, relative to a man detained here who it is said answered the descrip­tion of Walter Fay, self styled Ger-mon officer, who recently escaped

wl? the federal prison at Atlanta, while serving a sentence for violation of neutrality laws. According to the sheriff the man has declined to make any statement.

RESCUES MH Party Marooned on Ele­

phant Island Returns to Punta Arenas.

Punta Arenas, Chile, Sept 4.— Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shaokelton has rescued the members of his Ant­arctic expedition, marooned on Ele­phant island.

Shackelton returned here yester­day with his men safe and well on board the rescue ship Telcho.

Sir Ernest Shacketton left Punta Arenas August 26 with the Ship Tel­cho for a third attempt to rescue his men.

Alter the failure of his antarctic expedition Shaokelton with five mem­bers of his crew managed to reach Port Stanley, Falkland islands on May 31. Twenty-two others of the crew were left on Elephant Island on April 9. The first attempt to rescue the men was made In June and the second attempt in July, both falling on account of the ice.

Taken by British And Mail Censored

Manila, Sept. 4.—The Dutch steam-•r Arakan, which has arrived here from Java reports that the British sloop of war Cadmus halted her In Slbutu passage and convoyed her to Sandakan, Borneo, Where she was quarantined. The Manila mall on board the Arakan was seised and cen­sored overnight but the mall for Hong Kong, Nagasaki and San Fran­cisco was not disturbed.

British warships recently have seized in British Far Eastern ports freight on board steamers bound for Manila consigned to certain business houses there.

Slbuta passage lies between two Islands on the Sulu archipelago which belongs to the United States.

RFFI&S WRECK MEXICAN TRAM

Soldiers and Passengers are Killed—Train Guards

Butchered.

Laredo, Tex., Sept. 4.—Twenty-five Mexican soldiers and eleven passen­gers were killed last Thursday when a constitutionalist train was wrecked by bandits, claiming allegiance to Carrero Torres, according to advices reaching the border today. The ban­dits butchered the train guards, car­rying away everything movable, these advices said. The wreck occurred between San Luis and Tampico, be­low Carbenas.

INFANTRY ACTIVE ON SOMME FRONT

London, Sept. 4.—British and Ger­man foroes were engaged in infantry fighting this morning north of the river Somme in France, according to the British official statement. Bat­tles were in progress near Mouquet farm, south of Thlepval, and on the banks of the river Ancre. Fighting also was going on around Falfemont farm, on the British right wing. The statement adds that some ground was gained by the British.

MOST FORMIDABLE AIR ATTACK ON ENGLAND IS RECORDED; THIRTEEN

IN TREASURY, SAYS GOVEHWRHANNA Will be None as Result of

Any Action by Ad­ministration.

ALL OBLIGATIONS HAVE BEEN MET

Was Chargijp that New Ad-niinistrat%|ri Would Face

Big Shortage.

Bismarck, N.? D., Sept. 4.—That there is no deficit in the state treas­ury, and that there will be none as a result of any Action by this admin­istration or of the board of equaliza-tion is the assertion made by Gover-nor Hanna when his attention was called to statements published to the effect that the administration which takes charge next January would face a deficit o* from $400,000 to $600,000.

"There will be no eeflclt of $600,-000 or of $400*000," said the governor. There will be no deficit whatever.

All the matured obligations of the state have been met. Every bill has been paid. There is now some $300,-000 in the treasury. The levies Just made by the board or equalization will yield about $2,000,000, which is Just about what Is required to operate the state government for a. year.

"It is true that some bills will be carried -over into the new year, but there is nothing alarming in this, nothing new, and nothing improper. This has been the case ©very year since the state was organized. It is due to' the fact that while the ex­penses of the gtate run along as usual in the closing months of the year, the revenues are then at their lowest point. This is a condition common to all states. Minnesota, New York and many other statjes have provided by law for the bridging of this gap, and certificates of indebtedness are Issued to take care of bills until re­ceipts from the tax levies begin to come in. In North Dakota we have no such law, and it is always neces­sary that some payments shall be deferred after the first of the vear until the taxes are paid later on. ' But our state has no deficit, and will have none."

fREKKT IMmC NORMAL AGHI; v?4

RAILROADS NOW MUST DEMOBILIZE STRIKEBREAKERS

Large Number of Men Had Been Gathered For

Work.

LITTLE DELAY IS EXPERIENCED

Holiday Gives Shippers Op­portunity to Catch Up

in Work.

OWE amp nBErvROYED AS IT ®Tam over LoifDOjr—COM-PIiKTE REPORTS OF DAMAGE AN3> CASUALTIES NOT RECEIV­ED—MANT BOMBS ARE DROP-FED.

German Arrested. Athens, Via London, Sept. 4.—Bar­

on von Schenk, chief director of the German propaganda in Greece, was arrested and taken aboard a cruiser of the Entente Allies. Sixteen addi­tional warships of the Entente pow­ers have arrived at Piraeus.

Diplomats of the Entente Allies had demanded that Baron von Schenk and bIx co-workers in behalf of the cen­tral empires, be expelled from Greece. It was reported that he barricaded himself in a house in Athens, and sur­rounded it with a score of armed guards and his friends, to protect himself.

Furious Battles. Petrograd, via London, Sept. 4.—

Furious battles are being fought by Russian and Austro-German forces near Ziochoff and Hallcz, to the east and southeast of Lemberg, according to yesterday's Russian official state­ment. South of Rafailov, In the car­ps/Alans, and In the region of Dorna-vaira, on the Bukowina-Rumanian border, Russian troops, the announce­ment says, have driven the Teutons from fortified positions and have captured several heights, taking 300 prisoners. _

NEW OFFICES FOR OLD NAVY NON-COMS

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Washington, Sept. 4—A new avenue of promotion for worthy non-commls-sloned officers who have been barred from commissions because of over­age, lack of education, or other deter­rent circumstance, Opens up in the

Srovision made in the navy appropria­te bill for the appointment of forty

warrant officers in the United States marine oorps.

These warrant officers will be known as Marine Gunners and.Quar­termaster Clerks and their pay and al­lowances will range from $1,700 to $2,600 a year.

Enlisted men who are "able to do things" will get the appointments, and the theoretical element will not enter into their examination, say ma­rine corps officials at headquarters.

Holding Man Thought k To Be German Officer

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London, Sept 4.—Thirteen Zeppelin airships took part in the raid over the eastern counties Saturday night, and an official statement Issued last evening says It was the most formid­able attack by air ever made on Eng­land. Only three of the Zeppelins were able to approach the outskirts of London. One of these was shot down and the other two were driven off by aircraft guns and aeroplanes.

Reports regarding the number of casualties and the damage caused by the great number of bombs dropped had not been completed last evening, but it was stated the damages and loss of life were not heavy "consider­ing the number of shlpB engaged "

The text of the official statement said:

"Last Saturday night's raid was carried out by thirteen airships, and thus was the most formidable attack that had been made on this country. The principal theater of operations was the eastern counties, and the ob-

to have been London and certain industrial centers in the Midlands.

"The measure taken for the reduc­tion or obscuration of lights undoub­tedly proved most efficaoious, for the raiding squadrons instead of steering a steady course as in the raids of the spring and of last autumn, groped about in darkness looking for a safe avenue to approach their objectives.

"Three airships only were able to approach the outskirts of London. One of them appeared over the nor­thern district about 1:15 In the morn­ing, where she was picked up by searchlights and heavily engaged by anti-aircraft guns and aeroplanes, after a few minutes the airship was seen to burst into flames and fall rap­idly towards earth.

"The ship was destroyed, the wreckage, engines and half burned bodies of the crew being found at Cuf-ley, near Enfield.

"Experts hope to reconstruct cer­tain portions of the framework. The large- amount of wood employed in the framework of the Zeppelin is startling and would seem to point to a shortage of aluminum In Germany.

"The other two ships . which ap­proached London were driven off by the defenses without being able to ap­proach the center of the city.

"A great number of - bombs were dropped promiscuously over the East Anglian and southeastern counties, but complete reports as. to casualties and damage have not yet been re­ceived. Those in hand Indicate that the damage and loss of life will not be heavy considering the number of ships engaged, a great number of the bombs dropped having fallen either into the sea or In remote country dis­tricts-

"It is hoped that any persons who picked up fragments of the wrecked airship will submit them to general headquarters without delay. If of no value in the reconstruction of the air­ship they will be returned to their owners. It should be remembered that the retention of such articles Is a contravention of the defense of the realm regulations.

."A statemet of casualties will be Is­sued tomorrow."

The Zeppelin raid did not .afford Londoners the spectacle that did those of this time last year, although from many parts of the dty people awakened by the firing saw one of the raiders falling In flames.

News of the raid circulated Oaring the evening and people waited up In expectation of semnjr sights which became familiar lasfyear. They !iad almost given up hope when the fir­ing of gnns told them that Zeppelins were- making ansffort- fto the

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city. Only a few rounds were fired, however, as the defenses of London proved too strong for the raiders, the most daring of which had been struck and brought down In flames, a fact which soon was known to the whole city through the cheering of the' crowds which had gathered at every

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New York, Sept. 4.—Freight traffic on all railroads entering New York, interrupted by embargoes due to the fear of a strike, was moving again to­day on normal schedule, and railroad men say little congestion resulted from the brief embargoes. Large quantities of merchandise had been shipped immediately previous to the Issuance-of the hold-up orders.

This being a holiday, shipments will be lighter than ordinarily on Monday and the roads will have an opportuni­ty to catch up with the regular order of freight movements.

"By Tuesday morning," said P. J. Flynn, vice president of the Lacka­wanna, "all great arteries of traffic will be operating on normal basis, just as if there never had been any strike talk."

The big task before the railroads is demobilizing the forces of strike breakers assembled last Week at con­siderable expense, a number of these, it is said, being employed on con­tracts which still have a week and some even more to run. Provision dealers say the market will slump during the next few days because of the large quantity of foodstuffs held by speculators In expectation of fam­ine prices to be dumped on the mar-

ANOTHKR WON ORE RECORD. Detroit, SeptL^AV—Another record in ,

iron ore shtpmirKs mi the Great Lakes i ket. was made in Augest, according to ' i_• figures justJMdf, public. There were RUSSIAN ATTACKS REPTTLSED. loaded last Molith 9,850,140 tons, j fierlln, ("via London), Sept. 4.— which was nearly two million tons i Strong Russian attacks made against greater than In August a year ago. : the Austro-German forces north of

For the season to September 1, (Zeborow in the Galician regian east ?_'P^tp^wts aggregated 39,215,864 tons,j of Lemberg were repulsed in bayonet an increase of more than 12,000.000 tons over the same period in 1915 and 7,000,000 tons more than the total movement in 1914.

Vessel men are confident the total shipments for 1916 will reach 60,000,- were taken bv 000 tons. ' - •

fighting, says the official statement Is sued by the German army headquar­ters staff- In the Carpathians, the statement adds, Teuton positions on the Ploska height south of Zielona

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General Frledrich von Bernhardt.

General Frtedrich von Bernaxdi, who in 1912 wrote a book forecasting the present war and many of Its main features, has been named by Emperor William to take charge of the Ger­man army defending Kovel. The gen­eral Is one of the best known military writers of Germany and is very close to the emperor.

TO PRESENT MEMORIAL TO

GOVERNMENT Lincoln Birthplace to Be­come Property of Nation

—Wilson Speaks.

Hodgensville, Ky„ Sept., 4.—Many thousands 6t persons made a pilgrim­age here today by train, automobile and afoot to be present at the cere­monies attending the transfer to the government of the Lincoln birthplace and the cabin in which Abraham Lin­coln was born.

The cabin, inclosed in a magnificent granite memorial building, was given to the government by the Lincoln Farm association, under a special act of congress.

The program called for a speech by Wilson. Secretary Baker and others. Wilson was cheered by thousands as a special train passed through Louis­ville this morning.

GERMAN¥BOAT IS DESTROYED

Ships of Entente Navy Sink Submersible Off

Phaleron.

SATISFACTION IS FELT IN

WASHINGTON Congressional and Execu­

tive Circles Pleased with Results.

BILL WILL BE SIGNED AGAIN

Wilson to Affix Signature i Tomorrow to be Sure it

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Washington. Sept. 4.—Knowledge that Labor day, the time set for a na-; tion-wide railway strike, had come. and trains on all roads still were run-i ning, caused great satisfaction in the! senate, house and diplomatic circles.: The Adamson eight-hour bill passed Saturday, is considered a law' today.' Wilson having signed the bill yester-' day. To avoid any chanoe of it being void on the ground that it received executive approval on a legal holiday, the president will sign it again tomor­row on his return from Hodgensville. where today he attended the Lincoln memorial exercises.

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Athens, Sept. 3, via London, Sept. 4. —Ships of the Entente allied fleet sank a German submarine yesterday off Phaleron. It is claimed by Entente military officers that the undersea boat had received its supplies from Austrian and German ships which were seized In the harbor of Piraeus yesterday by French sailors.

A number of destroyers of the En­tente fleet made a careful reconnais­sance in the neighborhood of the ar­senal yesterday afternoon. They put down anti-submarine nets and nosed close to where the Lemnos and the Kilkie, formerly the U. S. battleships Mississippi and Idaho were lying. It is currently believed here that the Entente fleet desires to establish a naval base at Piraeus as a base of supplies for the Entente allied armies' west wing on the Macedonian front, which could be more easily supplied by rail from Piraeus than from Salon­iki. Should this action prove to be of military value to the Entente powers, the Greek government, it is under­stood will not object.

The selsure of the Austrian and German merchants ships at Piraeus and the occupation by Entente troops of the Greek wireless station last night threw the Austro-German resi­dents in Athens and especially the agents of the German government In­to a panic.

Toward midnight, newsboys shout­ing "extras" in the streets, attracted the employes of Baron Von Schenck, the director of German propaganda in Greece, from the hotel In their night clothes to learn their fate. The impossibility of communicating to their home government by wireless telegraphy added to their consterna­tion.

Diplomats of the Kntente allies de­mand that Baron Von BBhanck and sixty ew-workers in behalf ot the Central empires be expelled from GMeoe. Several arrssta alwady te*» been made, those taken Into custody including the offtoers of the interned Austrian and German abtps. Van Schenck is bellowed, to has* isnsped.

Spokane, Wash., Sept 4.—lCtas flan. K. Smith of Ohloage, the largsl

Wilson Signs BilL Washington, Sept. 4.—The Adam-

son eight-hour day bill exacted from congress last week by the railroad brotherhoods as the price of callings off the nationwide strike ordered for today, was signed by President Wilson yesterday in his prtvate car at the' union station, where he stopped on bin way from Shadow lawn, N. J., to Hodgenville, Ky. That there may be no question as to the legality of the measure as a result of it having been, signed on Sunday, the president Willi affix his signature again upon his re* turn to Washington next Tuosdsv-

How long peace shall reign «s a ra> suit of the bill bjijis* sidlj is depend­ent upon developments in the pro. posed move to test tbs constitution-Allty of the act Should the railroads take no action, but await the begin­ning of an Investigation of the work-, lngs of the eight-hoar day by the. Bpeclal commission for which the> measure provides, the brotherhoods will remain inactive.

The employes, leaders declare, how­ever, that should the law be held un­constitutional and the railroads at­tempt to restore the ten-hour day on their lines, a strike will follow. promptly.

Make No Comment. Brotherhood heads in a circular let-,

ter to their members made no com-' ment on the measure as passed. They;

merely pointed out that it would not' become effective until next January 1 and that many things might occur between now and then which would! change materially any suggestions or comment they might make.

Xone of the brotherhood leaders witnessed the signing of the bill. They, had expected, according to tentative arrangements made by Secretary Tumulty Saturday night to be present, but the president decided to attend to the business at the railroad station and newspaper correspondents gave them their first information about it. i The four pens used by the president' in signing the bill—one for each syllable of his name—will be pre­sented to the four brotherhoow heads, A. B. Garretson, w. G. Lee, w. s'i Carter and TV. S. Stone, after being used for resigning the bin on Tues­day.

No ceremony attended the signing. Originally it had been planned that the president should go to the White House, but this was changed, and in­stead, Rudolph Forester, assistant sec-' retary to the president, took the bill to the train.

Near the car window a group of trainmen in their overalls paused in their work long enough to watch the president write his name. An en­gineer. passing on a yard engine, cele­brated the occasion with several pro­longed blasts of his whistle.

Urges Webb Bill. While at the station the president

sent Secretary Tumulty to the home of Majority Leader Kern of the senate to urge that the senate pass the Webb bill, passed Saturday by the house, designed to permit American firms to; utilize common selling agencies abroad without violating the Sherman anti­trust law.

Later the president and Mrs. Wil­son took an automobile ride about the city. During their absence the private car was attached to a special train carrying guests of the Lincoln Farm association, bound for Hodgen­ville to participate in the exercises In­cident to the transfer of the log oabln in which Abraham Lincoln was born to the federal government today, at which time the president will maka an address.

August N First Strike Data It developed yesterday that tte'

brotherhoods' heads before being summoned to Washington by Presi­dent Wilson three weeks ago, had agreed to call a strike effective Au­gust 10. The orders then drafted were used when the strike flMtlljr was set for Labor day. After having been printed in preparation fV>r the proposed strike on August M tbs* were locked in a vavlt ttaar Totk. Decision a week ago * — order a strike the t< the majority of the were leaving for thMr aonass. ws followed tr a hasty trip to Mas T«k by two rspisssutaU»sa of ths erttoeds. The

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